PhotoMath: Math Student's New Best Friend Is the Teacher's Nightmare

Touted as the world's first camera calculator and launched last week, PhotoMath is an app that uses text recognition technology to solve simple math equations

But PhotoMath doesn’t stop at just solving the equation, it also provides step-by-step instructions explaining how it got to the answer.

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PhotoMath can solve arithmetic expressions, fractions and decimals, powers and roots, and simple linear equations

While it’s easy to see how students could take advantage of the app during tests, MicroBlink, the Croatian company that created PhotoMath, sees many positive uses for its creation. Read more...

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